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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

If you were a bit skeptical about yesterday's rally, so far it is paying off today. No it's time to be a bit skeptical of this drop, as we came right down to 1270 and held, indicating an important support point. If 1270 goes, however, yesterday's breakout will have failed and it's right back into range bound hell. XLY and XLU are today's leading sectores, with XLF, yesterday's leader, getting shellacked and is way behind anything else. The Nasdaq and Russell 2000 are bith lagging. Oil and gold are up, treasury yields down but not by much.

I have 18 new highs so far, with breakouts in VOC, FTK, and OILT. I have nothing reporting today and don;t see anything of interest on the earnings front.

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I am not a financial professional, just a guy that trades my own account.
I am also not a musical professional, just a guy that makes music on the computer. Thus, two blogs, one trading and on musical.
And, no, the picture is not me, it is the late, great John Belushi, one of the inspirations for these blogs.

About ThIs Blog

This blog is focused on technical analysis of stocks and markets, putting heavy emphasis on chart analysis. My trading style is derived primarily from my mentor, William "Yoda" O'Neil, and the focus here is on leading and breakout stocks, but all forms of trading are covered to some extent. Economic and political news that effects the market are also topics here, and the blog may occasionally become a platform for my political and philosophical ranting. I keep several spreadsheets on Google docs which track various aspects of the market and readers are welcome to vies and comment on them.

Google Docs Spreadsheets

There are several spreadsheet that I maintain on Google docs to track various watchlists and trends in the market.

1. The earnings list - a group of small and micro cap, low float stocks that have exhibited recent rapid earnings growth. They are modeled along the lines of William O'Neil's CAN SLIM system, but limited to small cap, highly volatile stocks.

2. The relative strength list - a group of stocks which are near 52 week highs and have shown an increase in average daily volume. The list is limited to the top 200 stocks according to my methodology, which will be detailed on one of the pages of the spreadsheet.